Word: silver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there musing. . . . The seriousness of their interest in the question could not be doubted, and yet it was confounded with an incurable frivoli ty owing to their astronomical remoteness from the conditions of life of which they spoke. . . . In the exquisite little room, gleaming with glass and silver, over the flowers and champagne, all so enclosed and private and secure, one who had been King, one who had been dictator, and one who was to be: what did they have to speak of but the dirt on a miner's neck? In the realm of ideas it was like...
...stands 6 ft. 2½ in., weighs 210 lb., an excellent size for a Presidential candidate. At 49, his hair is solid silver. He has a comfortable double chin, the kind of American nose that looks best under a baseball cap. He likes double-breasted blue suits, decorously striped ties, black shoes. He wears a broad gold Masonic ring, carries a gold-pocket watch, keeps a diamond American Legion pin in his coat lapel...
...proposed that, if sufficient funds prove available, Alsopp* should be given a silver watch. Subscriptions, which should not exceed half-a-crown, should be sent to the Steward of J.C.R., P. W. Cooke, New College...
...These were the same boys who a month ago pushed 1,400 Italians out of Sened and took 600 prisoners. Most of them had Berretta pistols and Italian binoculars, and some of them were wearing Italian officers' silver stars. The Italians had been easy, but the Germans had been a tougher proposition, as these troops are only just finding...
...city room there is more noise and less paciencia than in most. La Prensa, which has 16 editorial writers and not one ad salesman, does not hesitate to criticize the government or anybody. In a cloistered courtyard, where grey-uniformed copy boys respectfully fold copy into a silver cup, to be pulleyed to editorial balconies, this great old paper represents a fine tradition of Western journalism...